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Language: Old English
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blithe

 adjective
     
blithe
1 seeming not to care or worry about the effects of what you do:
a blithe disregard for the facts
2 literary happy and having no worries
—blithely adverb:
He seems blithely unaware of how much anger he's caused.
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